Quotes About Inequality

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was naturally divided between working drudges and elite leaders, who directed their workers and used the wealth the workers produced to promote progress.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.

People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Property is organized robbery.

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

Income is now more concentrated in the hands of the rich. Those well-off households tend to save and invest higher proportions of their earnings than middle-class or low-income families do.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.

It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

Poverty leads to protests.

The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.